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Art Collection Telekom - The First Decade
About us
The Art Collection Telekom, the art collection of the Deutsche Telekom, was launched in 2010. The focus is concentrated on contemporary art from Central- Eastern- and South-Eastern-Europe.
The Art Collection Telekom aims to address the social and political changes after the fall of the Iron Curtain and to promote a broader understanding of Europe's cultural diversity through the visual arts. Even more than three decades after this historical turning point, the consequences of the division of the world into East and West, into Communism or Capitalism, have not been overcome. New rifts have emerged between open democracies or state-controlled and often nationalistically oriented democracies.
Contemporary art registers and comments on such distortions. Overall, the collection intends to create an exemplary art-historical spectrum of contemporary art in this cultural area and to concentrate primarily on younger artists in order to document and collect their work over a longer period of time. The whole media spectrum from drawing to digital installation is represented.
Basic requirements for the selection of the works are a high level of
form, content, and aesthetics and an openly laid out horizon of meaning
that promises to develop further in terms of content over the years.
When building up and expanding the collection, great importance is
attached to the high potential for stories and narratives. In this way,
the works form an ideal basis for discussions and the exchange of ideas.
Contemporary art offers the chance to see the world through different eyes. An adventure that requires openness, impartiality, and trust in the own thinking. The Art Collection Telekom would like to encourage this. The development of the collection is supervised by the artboard made up of employees of Deutsche Telekom and coordinated by an internal advisory board, Antje Hundhausen and Margret Fischer.
Curatorial advice is provided by Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher from Office for Art in Berlin.
Contemporary art should be seen, experienced, and discussed. It is therefore very important for the Art Collection Telekom to present parts of the collection to the public regularly in different contexts. Exhibitions have been organized regularly with institutional and private partners since 2014.
'Group Therapy – Collections in Dialogue' Stone Bell House – Prague City Gallery
'Don't Dream Dreams', Moderna Galerija Ljubljana
'How To Deal With The World', Berlin; 'The Time Has Come To Talk Of Many Things...' National Galerie – The Palace, Sofia
'See Me Moving Placeless' MSU, Skopje / Kyriaki Goni – 1st ArtScience Residency
'Keeping The Balance', Ludwig Museum Budapest; ArtScience Residency
'What Are We Made Of?' Kunsthalle Darmstadt and 'Listen To Us – Artistic Intelligence' in Plovdiv
'I Am The Mouth' in Zagreb, 'Contemporary Structures 4' in Ostrava
'Półpravda | Half-Truth' at Królikarnia palace, Warsaw
'Shape of Time – Future of Nostalgia' in Bucharest and 'Preview' in the Królikarnia Palace, Warsaw with Maria Kulikovska and Eva Kot'átková
Volodymyr Kuznetsov at Art Cologne
'Fragile Sense of Hope' in the me Collectors Room Berlin
Artistic interventions in the hub:raum, Konzernhaus Berlin
Dan Perjovschi at the Telekom booth, IFA 2012, and exhibition in the Art Digit
First exhibition in the Art Digit
Präsentation of 'Three Videos with Narration', 2009/2010, and 'Cops and Robbers', 2009, from Agnieszka Polska in the Art Digit at the headquarter in Bonn.
Start Art Collection Telekom with focus on contemporary art from Eastern- and Southeastern-Europe
First acquisitions: 'Three Videos with Narration', 2009/2010, and 'Cops and Robbers', 2009, from Agnieszka Polska, and two video works from Roman Ondak: 'Lucky Day', 2006 and 'Follow Me', 2002.
